Rose Lee Maxson

Rose Lee Maxson (1914-) was a Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania homemaker who was married to Troy Maxson.

Biography
Rose Lee was born in the American South in 1914, and her family later moved north to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania during the Great Migration. She married Troy Maxson, a former baseball player who was ten years her senior, and they lived a working-class lifestyle in the Hill District; she made the family home while Troy worked as a waste collector. In 1940, she gave birth to a son, Cory Maxson, and she lived a subservient life to her husband for decades, sacrificing some of her strength to ensure that her hard-headed husband continued to provide for the family. In 1957, she was devastated when her husband cheated on her and fathered another child, and she became estranged from him after her husband asked her to raise his illegitimate daughter following her mother's death. Rose Lee and Troy lived in the same house, although they were no longer the same loving and united couple, and Cory left home and joined the US Marine Corps. Six years later, Troy died of a heart attack while swinging his baseball bat in the backyard, and Rose Lee ultimately came to terms with her late husband, deciding that she would raise her daughter in the same way that Troy had raised Cory; attempting to give the best of herself to her child. Rose Lee convinced Cory to attend his father's funeral, and the family offered forgiveness to Troy that might not have been fully deserved.